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With regard to [[wp:User:MZMcBride/Memes#.7B.7Bretired.7D.7D|MZMcBride's statement on "retirement"]], "Short of real-life death, it's ''incredibly'' rare that someone actually leaves this place": [http://gawker.com/5827835/wikipedia-is-slowly-dying that may be changing]. Who knows what the reason is for the macro trend; we'd probably have to do surveys to find out, and even then accurate results would depend on people's self-insight. So I will focus on my own experience. | With regard to [[wp:User:MZMcBride/Memes#.7B.7Bretired.7D.7D|MZMcBride's statement on "retirement"]], "Short of real-life death, it's ''incredibly'' rare that someone actually leaves this place": [http://gawker.com/5827835/wikipedia-is-slowly-dying that may be changing]. Who knows what the reason is for the macro trend; we'd probably have to do surveys to find out, and even then accurate results would depend on people's self-insight. So I will focus on my own experience. | ||
I've retired from enwiki, or committed suicide by sysop, innumerable times and come back. Nobody was able to chase me away, even by deleting slews of articles I created and reverting almost everything I did, whenever another sockpuppet was unmasked. I was undeterred, because a lot of times I either had a copy of the pages locally saved, or theoretically had the means to obtain a copy, so nothing was really lost; I figured that if the enwiki community ever unbanned me, I could recreate those articles using that content, or at worst I could create them on a third-party wiki. | I've retired from enwiki, or committed suicide by sysop, innumerable times and come back. Nobody was able to chase me away, even by summarily deleting, pursuant to [[wp:Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G5._Creations_by_banned_or_blocked_users|G5]], slews of articles I created and reverting almost everything I did, whenever another sockpuppet was unmasked. I was undeterred, because a lot of times I either had a copy of the pages locally saved, or theoretically had the means to obtain a copy, so nothing was really lost; I figured that if the enwiki community ever unbanned me, I could recreate those articles using that content, or at worst I could create them on a third-party wiki. In the case of reversions, the reverted revisions remained in the page histories, so were even more readily available. | ||
So, each time I got blocked, I would just come back and edit a different set of pages, which wasn't hard since I was always taking up new interests. If someone accused me of sockpuppetry, it was because I quit caring about getting caught and therefore purposefully resumed editing the same pages I edited under a past account. However, since the last block, on 11 July 2012, I've almost completely abstained from editing enwiki (I suppose if I were at a library or someone else's house, I might anonymously correct a typo if I stumbled upon one). Originally, part of that was that I wanted to be able to honestly tell the ArbCom I'd fulfilled the conditions of the [http://meta.inclumedia.org/wiki/The_wisdom_of_the_standard_offer standard offer]. However, from what I hear the ArbCom isn't granting unbans pursuant to the standard offer much anymore; if they wouldn't grant it to Michaeldsuarez and PeterKa, whose misbehavior (if that's what it was) was relatively mild, I doubt they're going to grant it to me. So, that consideration is now a moot point. | So, each time I got blocked, I would just come back and edit a different set of pages, which wasn't hard since I was always taking up new interests. If someone accused me of sockpuppetry, it was because I quit caring about getting caught and therefore purposefully resumed editing the same pages I edited under a past account. However, since the last block, on 11 July 2012, I've almost completely abstained from editing enwiki (I suppose if I were at a library or someone else's house, I might anonymously correct a typo if I stumbled upon one). Originally, part of that was that I wanted to be able to honestly tell the ArbCom I'd fulfilled the conditions of the [http://meta.inclumedia.org/wiki/The_wisdom_of_the_standard_offer standard offer]. However, from what I hear the ArbCom isn't granting unbans pursuant to the standard offer much anymore; if they wouldn't grant it to Michaeldsuarez and PeterKa, whose misbehavior (if that's what it was) was relatively mild, I doubt they're going to grant it to me. So, that consideration is now a moot point. | ||